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| Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present | 
| Creator: Gloria Naylor
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 127589
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0316599239
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.018896073
EAN: 9780316599238
ASIN: 0316599239
Publication Date: February 1, 1997
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Condition: Bayfront Books carefully selects the books it offers for sale on Amazon, and only includes those that are worthy of another read. While dust jackets may be missing and covers may show some damage, the contents are very readable... even in those books where previous owners had taken considerable notes or highlighting.
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Product Description
A powerful collection of the finest contemporary short fiction by African-American writers, including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Jamaica Kincaid, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and others, brilliantly captures the varied facets of the black experience in America. Reprint. AB.
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| Customer Reviews:
Yawn July 12, 2000
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
Most of the stories in this book are very boring. Even what'smeant to be interesting such as the story about a lesbian vampirebrothel-owner (i kid you not!)is so overdone that it's positively farcical. I don't have the book to hand at the moment but I remember another story that tried a stream-of-consciousness approach that failed miserably. I felt like I was wading through the stories. Of course there are some good stories from a book boasting contributions from Baldwin and Morrison, but the vast majority are nothing special. Credit must go to the editors who arranged the stories in pertinent sections. Pity they didn't have better material to work with.
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